Hypnotherapy is widely known for its effectiveness for smoking cessation. Besides addiction, smoking is commonly considered as a habit. Yet a habit is a habit when it’s unconscious. When it is conscious, it’s not a habit anymore. It’s a choice.

Even though people choose to light up each cigarette, a lot of people still don’t seem to have control over it. Especially when they want to stop, it appears as if cigarettes have power over them.

They don’t like it – that they are controlled by cigarettes. They want to stop, and call cigarette bad – not bad as it is for our health, but “bad” as if it’s an enemy that they need to fight with.

Cigarettes might be just innocent, like everything else. It’s the people who are doing all those wanted and unwanted behaviours. And placing value judgment not only to cigarettes but to themselves.

The benefit of working with a hypnotherapist to stop smoking, compared with other means, is that normally other issues, such as emotional needs, childhood memories, or mental interpretations, can be addressed at the same time. Some of them go hand in hand with the smoking habit.

Kemila’s methods in treating smoking cessation using hypnotherapy may be different from other hypnotists, as she does not use a script suggesting how bad the smoking habit is to one’s health, unless that’s what is asked for. When fear becomes a motivation, one may stop smoking but pick up another unwanted habit as a replacement. Normally the first thing she does when she sees a client for stop smoking is to make smoking behaviour okay, rather than judging it, and judging the person who is doing it. We cannot change what we don’t own. This is self-empowerment.

What Kemila does is a holistic outlook, to address the need to smoke, even when one says it’s not desired. Smoking may be serving some hidden purpose; smoking may be a coping mechanism for something else; smoking may symbolize something important… When those needs are addressed properly, the reason to smoke is gone, then it’s natural not to need to smoke any more.

Hypnotherapy is more effective than nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation: Results of a randomized controlled trial. Hypnosis and HNRT were over three times more likely than NRT only participants to abstain at 26-weeks.

Hasan, F. M., Zagarins, S. E. Pischke, K. M., Saiyed, S., Bettencourt, A. M., Beal… (2014) Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 22(1), 1-8. doi:10.1016/j.ctim.2013.12.012

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